Keith Richards leaves NZ hospital

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has been released from a New Zealand hospital which had monitored a head injury he reportedly suffered falling out of a palm tree in Fiji, it was announced on Tuesday. The band's world tour is on schedule to resume later this month in Spain (May 27th in Barcelona), according to their spokeswoman.

Along with lead singer Mick Jagger, Richards has been the backbone of the Rolling Stones since the 1960s. His history of arrests and drug abuse in younger years has given him the reputation as rock n' roll's ultimate survivor. He pokes fun at his checkered past by greeting concert audiences each night with the catchphrase, "Good to be here, good to be anywhere."

Still, he has suffered his fair share of freak accidents. Back in 1998, the European leg of the Stones' Bridges To Babylon tour was delayed when the guitarist injured his ribs and chest in a fall from a ladder in the study of his Connecticut home. In the mid-'70s, he broke his nose on the edge of an amplifier when he finally passed out after reportedly staying awake for a week straight.
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